His claim to fame prior to Hawthorn was coaching a Stawell Gift winner, I can't remember which one it was mid 90's.
I trained as a sprinter for a few years and I remember going to a Hawthorn/Melb game and Hawthorn did sprinting drills as a warm up, high knee lifts, bounds and a few other things I had a good laugh and knew we had the game won because they would be spent after doing this. Conditioning coaches that have a sprinting background have not had a lot of success at AFL clubs.
It is hard to go from training someone to be fast for a certain distance 100m 200m 400m to coaching football teams it is constant running with short bursts.
As previous posters have said the Hawks soft tissue injuries where high when this guy headed them up. Hopefully he has learnt new training methods and trains them as footballers and not sprinters. I am really concerned about this appointment, especially the issues we have had with OP to our younger players over the past 2-3 seasons.
